This is occasionally related to emigration of tech engineers originally working in those banks. The National Bureau of Statistics reports that out of over 187,000 tech professionals, over 28 per cent of them are unemployed, while 27.6 per cent of them are under-employed. In Nigeria, engineers are known to be vast in theory and seriously deficient in practice. According to her, “Nigeria needs to adopt the ‘Global Skill Partnership’ model as a matter of emergency to the sectors of health care, construction, and ICT/software tech engineers. Teachers, who are charged with the responsibility of training engineers, should be specially treated, as are the engineers in the industry.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2023 04:26 UTC